WE HAVE A NEW BLOGGER RIFFING ON WHOLE FOODS.Byline: -- Jason Kandel We have a new blogger. Fronnie Lewis, a longtime Burbank resident who spent time working in the TV news world at NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. . Fronnie has given us a dramatic blow-by-blow account of a recent marathon Burbank City Council meeting. At issue was not the latest political scandal A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials engage in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so. or a fight against the next big housing development. It was about Whole Foods coming to town. Tempers flared and emotions poured forth over the proposed Whole Foods Market at Alameda Avenue and Main Street in the tony Rancho District. It was one of the biggest crowds to hit the council chambers, probably since the city approved a new Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box day labor center Day Labor Center Models In the last twelve years in the US, there have emerged two main models of day laborer programs: the social service agency model day labor program (the traditional model that San Francisco, Los Angeles, and many other cities based their programs on) last year. It certainly was one of the longest meetings to have taken place in a long time. And there was Fronnie, pen in hand, until 3 a.m., writing it all down, then uploaded her story onto valleynews.com for posterity POSTERITY, descents. All the descendants of a person in a direct line. . Read her account on page 8. Use this as an opportunity to blog about what you care about in your world. Local elections are April 10. Use valleynews.com to introduce the candidates and tell us what you think about them. Make this a forum for constructive conversation about what decisions matter most to you and your family. At the right, are results from our first valleynews.com survey. We have a new one up online asking -- what's the biggest problem in the Valley? Go vote. |
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